Sky Sailing - An Airplane Carried Me to Bed
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Owl CityThe Postal Service
Secondhand Serenade
Release Date
07/27/2010
Label
Republic/UniversalTracklist
1 Captains of the Sky2 Brielle
3 Steady As She Goes
4 Explorers
5 A Little Opera Goes A Long Way
6 Tennis Elbow
7 Blue And Red
8 Alaska
9 I Live Alone
10 Take Me Somewhere Nice
11 Sailboats
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Sky Sailing is the predecessor to Adam Young’s super successful Owl City project. Unsurprisingly, the two are nearly indistinguishable save for Sky Sailing’s more rudimentary arrangements, which are even more repetitive and saccharine than Young’s current venture. In fact, An Airplane Carried Me To Bed flows like one long, forty-minute song with each track so similar to its brethren that it’s really the album that carries you to bed, regardless of where you are.
If anything, the whole piece seems incredibly contrived. Yes, with Sky Sailing Adam Young is still unabashedly copping Ben Gibbard’s style, but there’s more. A list of the band’s influences reads like a teenage girl’s “discoveries” at the local Urban Outfitters - faux kitsch that barely tries to mask its mass produced commercialism and phony authenticity, as Young cites glitter, surrealism, Jacques Cousteau, and library books among his many unique sources of inspiration. My, how originally quirky, right? Indeed, this is like Garden State: The Album.
A full listen to An Airplane Carried Me To Bed will set you dreaming of prom dresses, getting your braces off, and all other facets of 15-year-old female fantasies, all whispered in your ear by a twenty-something-year-old man. But Young makes no apologies and offers no excuses, simply letting the listener take it or leave it. To that end it’s not painful to listen to, and given that the album was recorded years ago in his parents’ basement, Young isn’t too shabby of a home engineer. But it is ultimately insulting. If you’ve heard one Owl City or Postal Service song, then you’ve already heard the best that Sky Sailing has to offer, rendering the whole affair relatively forgettable... except for that lingering desire to see Adam Young write Mr. Gibbard a royalty check.
--Alex Burton
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Atascadero, CA
i grabbed this for the heck of it a little while back and felt it's all for the money, it's not very good and well he probably shouldn't have released it again or at all if he never did way back when.
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Fishers, Indiana
This is the best review.
Can I five-star this review, and not the album?
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Sunshine Coast, Australia
people always make me feel terrible for liking garden state. so what's the go with this? It's the Owl City dude re-releasing his early material? I don't get it.
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Sunshine Coast, Australia
also, that full list of influences is god awful. ambiguity? No.
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San Diego, CA
I have also rated this review 5 stars hahaha
Too old to bother, too young to give a shit.